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Christer Pettersson arrives at his apartment outside Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989 after the appeals court freed him from his life sentence and conviction for the 1986 assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme
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My 3x great-aunt, Blanche, with her younger twin brother and sister, Edwin and Edna in 1907, watched her parents be murdered after she couldn’t stop their killer. She was left guardian of her six siblings at eighteen years old.
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Life Magazine 1947, "The Most Beautiful Suicide", Evelyn McHale at the bottom of the Empire State Building.
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A swastika adorned door knocker to hit the carving of a jewish caricature, Nürnberg, 1938
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My 2x great uncle, Kennie. This photo was taken in 1933. Two years later, in 1935, he died of an ear infection at age ten.
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“So, how does life under capitalism treat you?” (Russian Communist Party billboard) // Russia // 2010
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HQ 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment w/a member of the Dutch Resistance with annotations. Vicinity of Stanggas, Bischofswiesen, May 1945.
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“I’m working on it, Barbara, for fuck’s sake…” (Christmas, circa 1965)
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Detained bandits and gangsters lie on the ground before interrogation in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1992.
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The home of civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette Moore after being bombed by the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Day. Both were killed in the bombing. They were the first civil rights activists to be assassinated during the post-war civil rights movement (Florida, 1951) .
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